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Inventor Engagement Isn’t Marketing – It’s Strategy: What the Stanford Study Means for Your TTO

In this replay, Mary Albertson (Georgia Tech), Tolulope Perrin-Stowe (San Diego State University), and Luna Acosta (Arkansas State University) joined Tradespace’s Stefanie Kennon-McGill to explore what the Stanford study of 2,700 inventors means for how TTOs approach engagement, and what it actually looks like to build inventor engagement as a strategic discipline rather than an admin function.

Beyond Keep or Drop: A Smarter Framework for Patent Decisions Under Budget Pressure

In this replay, Anji Miller (LifeArc) and Matthew Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast) joined Tradespace’s John Sherrill to explore how tech transfer offices can move beyond binary keep-or-drop decisions and use the full range of portfolio tools available to them under budget pressure.

The IP Budget Math that Changes Everything

In this replay, investor and attorney Sam Garcia (Amplo) and patent attorney David Ashton (Patterson + Sheridan) joined Tradespace CEO Alec Sorensen to challenge one of the most accepted assumptions in IP: that patent budgets must limit portfolio growth. Together, they explored what changes when filing costs drop dramatically, how AI-assisted workflows are reshaping patent operations, and why the future of IP strategy is less about filing more and more about protecting the right inventions.

Reserving freedom to operate in the era of “patent everything”

Watch the replay of our recent panel on freedom to operate in the era of “patent everything.” IP leaders from GRAIL, Pure Storage, Coupa, and Tradespace unpacked how AI has reshaped both patent filing and searching, how in-house teams are balancing defensive and offensive strategy, and what a workable FTO monitoring practice looks like without a dedicated team.

Rethinking the Disclosure: From Friction to Flow

The Hidden Costs of Outside Counsel Dependency

How Canadian TTOs Are Rethinking Performance Reporting in 2026

In this fireside chat, our VP Strategy Justin Rerko hosted leaders from McGill, UBC, and McMaster to discuss how Canadian tech transfer offices are rethinking performance metrics — separating operational activity from true impact as scrutiny around commercialization outcomes, patent spending, and societal value continues to grow. Attendees receive practical frameworks for communicating a more defensible story about tech transfer performance.

Measuring What Matters: A Comprehensive Approach to TTO Performance Evaluation

Explore how TTOs can align measures of success with institutional missions, establish common benchmarks across peer groups, and balance quantitative metrics with qualitative impact. Leave with a clear framework for evaluating performance that captures both scholarly and societal contributions through the right mix of metrics.

Navigating a Historic Year for IP

As the industry looks to the new year, 2024 promises to be a turning point in IP history as several unique factors across business, technology, and the workforce converge. And with transformation, comes opportunity. During this webinar, panelists from academia and industry explored many factors that will take shape in 2024 and beyond

KPIs that Mean Something

Quantifying IP is difficult. Whether it is the valuation of a patent or more fundamental metrics to measure the relative merits of an IP portfolio, we all need help. During this webinar, a panel of experts explore new measures for IP quality and ROI

Building a Common Future with Innovation & Creativity

2024’s World IP Day focused on the IP sector’s role in building a common future with innovation and creativity. This 1-hr panel asked, how can we now leverage the can-do spirit of women to accelerate the WIPO theme of establishing a common future through Sustainable Development Goals?

Concrete Tools for Attorney Mental Health

Employee well-being has become a top concern in the legal industry. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Dr. Anna Gibson led a webinar focused on IP related mental health conditions and shared specific, realistic actions individuals, teams, and organizations can take to address these issues